Professor Carr  joined the faculty in Fall 2001.  He earned his Ph.D. at the Reubin O'D. Askew School  of Public Administration and Policy of The Florida State University.   His dissertation, entitled The Political Economy of Local Government Boundary Change:  State Laws, Local Actors and Collective Action, received the Leonard White Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public administration in the year 2000.   Prior to coming to Wayne State, he taught at the College of Charleston and worked as a policy analyst for the Florida legislature.  His current program of research involves local government boundary change including a variety of structural and non-structural forms of jurisdictional change.  A recent publication entitled "State Annexation 'Constraints' and the Frequency of Municipal Annexation" appeared in Political Research Quarterly.  His book (edited with Richard Feiock), Reshaping the Local Government Landscape:  Perspectives on City County Consolidation and its Alternatives, was published by M.E. Sharpe in 2004.  

 

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